Tech policy and media business
Tether: Rise of the Cryptodollar (A Part of your World newsletter)
How Spammers Hijack Abandoned URLs to Spread SEO Garbage Across the Internet (Gizmodo)
Testing news paywalls: Which are leaky, and which are airtight? (Columbia Journal Review)
In paywall age, free content remains king for newspaper sites (Columbia Journalism Review)
Airbnb Probably Isn’t Driving Rents Up Much, At Least Not Yet (FiveThirtyEight)
Why Google is giving up on its dream to bring super-fast broadband to everyone (Vox)
Comcast CEO to angry customers: It’s not me, it’s you (Vox)
Podcasting is getting huge. Here’s why. (Vox)
Airbnb’s multi-unit hosts and “commercial listings” account for growing share of NYC business (The Real Deal)
Politics/economic policy
A new Obama rule could save ordinary investors billions in hidden fees (Vox)
NYC real estate players pushing limits of capital gains tax rules (The Real Deal)
Trump claims FEC filing demonstrates sky-high wealth, income. It doesn’t. (The Real Deal)
Russia
The Russian Winter: A Warm-up (International Policy Digest)
Blog
How to disagree about U.S. politics (The Opposite of Post-truth)
Right Twitter’s political style (The Opposite of Post-truth)
How “fake news” sites look, feel, and operate (The Opposite of Post-truth)
What exactly is broken about U.S. politics? (The Opposite of Post-truth)